Please enjoy your happiness
By: Paul Brinkley-Rogers
Edition: First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9781501151255
Subjects: Americans; Man-woman relationships; May-December romances; Journalists; Biography
Description: "Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Paul Brinkley-Rogers has lived an adventurous life all over the world. But there is one story he cannot forget: that of his haunting love affair with a mysterious older Japanese woman in 1959. Paul was a sailor aboard the USS ShangriLa that longago summer when he met Kaji Yukiko in the seaport of Yokosuka. A fierce intellectual, Yukiko shared her astonishing knowledge of literature, film, and poetry with Paul and encouraged, even demanded, that he use his gifts to become the writer he is today. When a member of the yakuza, Japan's brutal crime syndicate, attempted to kidnap Yukiko, Paul realized that there was much more to her--and to Japan in the devastating wake of World War II--than he saw at first glance."--Front jacket flap.
Notes: "A memoir"--Jacket.

"Originally published in 2016 in Great Britain by Pan Macmillan"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351), filmography (pages 351-353) and discography (pages 353-354).
Table of contents: title: One fine day; title: The torment; title: Blue woman; title: A certain girl; title: Time of the typewriter; title: Man like a bear; title: Spider woman; title: Nice simple boy; title: There is no forgiveness; title: Five simple rules; title: The police know everything; title: Yukiko's list; title: The most beautiful; title: The tower of lilies; title: What is my joy?; title: Hall of flowers; title: Inappropriate thinking; title: Friends and enemies; title: Waiting woman; title: Am I OK?; title: Nocturnes; title: What men find beautiful; title: The garden of grand vision; title: We are very sorry; title: Can you find it in your heart?